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...teacher of all: the mass media. Boys playing Halo, a popular game for the X-Box game console, for instance—where the objective is to shoot everything in sight—learn that manhood is about power and domination. Television reinforces the lesson, often advertising a violent brand of masculinity. TV shows celebrate hyper-violent male icons like wrestlers, football players and action-heroes, a.k.a. professional killers. Meanwhile, men who don’t put on what anti-violence educator Jackson Katz calls a “tough guise” are portrayed as spineless, ineffective, misdirected...
...Making the violence more toxic is the spread of a brand of intolerant Islamic fundamentalism in a country with a history of religious tolerance. Bangladesh's Hindus, who constitute about 10% of the population of the predominantly Muslim nation, say they are increasingly being intimidated by gangs of Islamic fundamentalists, who attack them in their homes, warn them to pack up and leave for India and, for good measure, extort ransom from them. "The condition of religious minorities has become terrible under the present government," says Subrata Chowdhury, a Dhaka-based Hindu human-rights lawyer. The brutal attack on well...
...fail to control lawlessness, then Islamists can present themselves as the only real alternative," warns Mubasshar Hussain, president of Bangladesh's Institute of Architects. Sari seller Siraj, like many other Bangladeshis, says he is adamantly opposed to the fundamentalists because he finds their brand of Islam too extreme. "I am a Muslim, but they are my enemies," he says. As he sees it, the government and the opposition must wake up to the impending crisis before it is exploited by Islamic radicals or by the military: "Corruption and violence have to end. Both political parties have to understand this...
Well, maybe not this time. The best player in baseball--who, if his career lasts long enough, could break nearly every lifetime hitting record--is not only in his first big-market spotlight but also in a brand-new position. Since his job at shortstop was already taken by the beloved if defensively inferior Yankees captain Derek Jeter, ARod, desperate to abandon the train-wreck Texas Rangers, agreed to play third. More challenging than standing 40 feet closer to the batter will be playing in an atmosphere where anything other than a World Series victory is considered failure...
There's a good reason that the terms birdie and eagle are part of the golf lexicon and the word peacock is not. "Let's be honest: golf clothing is pretty dorky," says Craig Tanner, CEO and founder of Urban Golf Gear (UGG), an "athleisure" apparel brand that combines performance technology with urban fashion flair. Tanner, who started the company in 1997, figured there would be a bigger audience for golf clothes when he saw Tiger Woods score a victory in just his third amateur tournament in 1996. "I knew he was going to go pro, and I knew golf...